Jeremiah 51:4
in Jeremiah 51And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
KJV
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
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This verse in Jeremiah 51
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
a destroying wind
on Jeremiah 51:1-6
A destroying wind and fanners that empty her land turn the siege into a winnowing, the same threshing-floor image the chapter will return to, Babylon blown like chaff from her own grain. Verse 5 breaks in with reassurance inside the judgment, Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, though their own land was filled with sin, guilt owned without the promise being withdrawn. The call to flee is addressed to each soul separately, deliver every man his soul, this is the time of the Lord's vengeance, he will render unto her a recompence.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,.... By the sword, or by the arrows and darts of the Medes and Persians: and they that are thrust through in her streets; either by the one or by the other, especially the latter, since they only are mentioned; See Gill on Jer 50:30.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Translate it: “And they,” i. e., the young men who form her host Jer 51:3, “shall fall slain in the land of the Chaldaeans, and pierced through in her streets,” i. e., the streets of Babylon.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְנָפְל֥וּ | venafelu | and they will fall | H5307 → | 435 times |
| חֲלָלִ֖ים | chalalim | slain | H2491 → | 94 times |
| בְּאֶ֣רֶץ | beeretz | in [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים | kasdim | [the] Chaldeans | H3778 → | 80 times |
| וּמְדֻקָּרִ֖ים | umedukarim | and pierced through | H1856 → | |
| בְּחוּצוֹתֶֽיהָ׃ | bechutzoteiha | in streets its | H2351 → | 164 times |
וְנָפְל֥וּand they will fall
venafeluH5307 →435 times
חֲלָלִ֖יםslain
chalalimH2491 →94 times
בְּאֶ֣רֶץin [the] land of
beeretzH776 →2504 times
כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים[the] Chaldeans
kasdimH3778 →80 times
וּמְדֻקָּרִ֖יםand pierced through
umedukarimH1856 →
בְּחוּצוֹתֶֽיהָ׃in streets its
bechutzoteihaH2351 →164 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 50:37A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 51:30
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
- Nahum 3:13
Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
- Jeremiah 48:41
Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 25:20
all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
- Jeremiah 51:30
Through
Jeremiah 49:26For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 50:30
Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:3–4
Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 50:30
Through
Jeremiah 50:30Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 49:26
For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 49:26
Through
Isaiah 14:19But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 41:9
Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha…
- Jeremiah 41:9
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.